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GRMN 4520

Senior Seminar: From Prussia with love: romance meets reality in the Kaiserreich
Senior Seminar for Spring 2022:  From Prussia with love: romance meets reality in the Kaiserreich
Credit Hours:
3.0

This course explores the literature of the Wilhelmine Empire (1871-1918), with a focus on realistic fiction offering a window onto the lived experience of Germans from different social classes in a rapidly modernizing Germany.
Most of the stories concern young people in romantic relationships, around which the burning issues of the day swirl, crystalize, and usually explode: the impact of industrialization on small town, city, and family life; the conflict between science/scientism and traditional religion; the rise of the lower classes as a political and cultural force; women’s education and self-determination; masculinity and militarism. We will read short stories, plays, and novels by authors such as Theodor Fontane, Hedwig Dohm, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Clara Viebig, as well a wide variety of shorter texts that help us understand the culture of the time. Taught in German.

Spring 2023

MWF 10:20-11:10

Dr. Alexander Sager

Prerequisites:
GRMN 3020
Semester Offered:
Spring
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